Good Luck, You're on your Own! (T2K Fanzine Thread)

[Grimace]

I second and concur.

[Matt Wiser]

Grimace: glad to be of service. When I find the RDF air order of battle I did a while back, I'll find it and send it to you. It covers both sides, btw. Great job, by the way, on issue #1, and may there be more to follow.


As for the comment on the Naval stuff and the whole TWSNBN: I did the two pieces to fill plausible plot holes in canon, and to get comments and feedback in doing so. Again, if you want to use it in your campaign, you're perfectly free to do so. And if not, that's entirely up to you.

[Legbreaker]

With the greatest respect, there's been a big over-reaction to my last post and some replies seem to have missed the point. For the record my last post was intended to forestall any reeignition of the canon/non-canon argument, not ignite it. I'm in no way suggesting that Grimace or any contributors do anything other than as they see fit.

100% behind this statement/position.

@ Grimace
I hope to be able to finalise my work on the 2nd Marines 2000 operation soon for consideration for publication.

[Grimace]

Looking forward to seeing what you can send my way, Legbreaker!

And sounds good, Matt!

[Grimace]

Well, so far I've had three people mention that they'd contribute material to the 2nd issue. Can I get any other volunteers

The more we get, the better this fanzine will become! It also means it will last longer.

So if you've got something that's been sitting around, long forgotten, and want to share it, send it my way! Art, stories, maps, PCs, NPCs, weapons, gear, additional/optional rules....whatever!

[Legbreaker]

Hmm, might have something on "supply and demand" post nuke aka trade....
May also be closer to having Australian forces in Korea done, although that's more likely for the 3rd edition. Might even do something like a "how to give orders for dummies" at some point...

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Well, so far I've had three people mention that they'd contribute material to the 2nd issue. Can I get any other volunteers

The more we get, the better this fanzine will become! It also means it will last longer.

So if you've got something that's been sitting around, long forgotten, and want to share it, send it my way! Art, stories, maps, PCs, NPCs, weapons, gear, additional/optional rules....whatever!

Would you like some fiction I can rework my tank battle short story, make it far less derivative of "The Death of Track 66" from Team Yankee, as you like.

[Olefin]

Should have at least the excerpt from my East African Sourcebook describing how the war went nuclear in Africa. Possibly may even do my whole timeline for my idea how the war went in East Africa with mention of other areas in Africa up to April of 2001 if you would be interested in that as an article for the fanzine.

[Tegyrius]

You could do an All ADA special issue and pull in all the fictional and improbable ADA vehicles we generated last year.

- C.

[Panther Al]

I'm all for an ADA issue: I am still very fond the GAU-8 armed M1.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

I'm all for an ADA issue: I am still very fond the GAU-8 armed M1.

Hell, I'll take that one on the ground - I don't care that it won't penetrate the front of anything but light armor, the shaking up it'd give MBT crews would count as a mission kill!

[Grimace]

You could do an All ADA special issue and pull in all the fictional and improbable ADA vehicles we generated last year.

- C.

Send the info my way, Tegyrius, and I can certainly include it in a future issue!

[Tegyrius]

Send the info my way, Tegyrius, and I can certainly include it in a future issue!

The good discussion thread was here. I'll email you a slightly cleaned-up iteration of my XM2A61 writeup.

- C.

[Hybris]

How about something like " "news from the front"

It could include new vehicle seen in action and perhaps lessons learned of weapons and such that are new and/or modifications.

And of course all details don't need to be right

and other intelligence nuggets.

[StainlessSteelCynic]

I won't put directly contradictory material in the same issue, and I'll do my best not to put contradictory material in back-to-back issues either.

For myself, I don't see this as any sort of problem. I actually think that having two articles about the same topic but with different points of view can be more enlightening than having them spaced several issues apart.
Having the two articles in the same issue just opens up more food for thought and the editor (i.e. in this case Grimace) can but a small Editor's Note at the start of the second articles saying that e.g "For a different perspective on the same topic we have the following article..."

Personally, I like to see the different sides being argued and putting two or more articles into one issue or over the following issues isn't so much 'contradictory' for me as much as it is 'more exposure to different ideas' (if that makes any sense).
Just some thoughts.